Dilute Japanese Quail
A variety of the Japanese Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Laying
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About the Dilute Japanese Quail
Dilute is a sex-linked recessive (al^D) that broadly reduces pigment across the bird — the down hatches pale, the adult plumage is lightened and the shanks are clear of colour. Unlike the autosomal silver and fawn dilutions it follows sex-linked inheritance, so expression differs between cocks and hens. A normal productive Coturnix underneath.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 280
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 17 days
- Broodiness
- None
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- East Asia
- Scientific name
- Coturnix japonica